While reading the Puerto Rican article, I found a lot of information on Puerto Rico’s musical culture. The only thing I did not find was about the training, ritual, and apparel. Here is some information about these three cultural points that I found from reliable sources: Training- taught from an early age to use complex rhythmic structures. [...]
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Research musical culture/puerto rico
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Puerto Rico (due Tuesday December 1st)
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(this was due December first) Ideas- -Beautiful- MAYBE- Beauty varies from culture to culture, but nothing in the article can lead me to believe this music is beautiful or not. - Spirituality-YES- not all the songs are spiritual songs, but many incorporate their belief systems -Context- YES- They had many different contexts depending on the song -Function- YES- [...]